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W. 1. BATEMAN.

Carriage-Curtain Fastening N0. 69,306. Patented Oct. 1, 1867.

' Witnesses nvemdr W/ il z llz'aw GEaiemw g Z 34 diiarngy N. PETERS. FHOTO-UTHDGRAPHER. WASHINGTON n c WILLIAM P. BATEMAN, OF BARRINGTON, RHODE ISLAND, ASSiGNOR TO HIMSELF AND NATHAN F. MATHEWSON, OF THE SAME PLACE.

Letters Patent No. $9,306, dated October 1, 1867.

IMPROVEMENT IN CARRIAGE-BUTTON.

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TO ALL PERSONS TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME:

Be it known that I, lVILLIAIil P. BATEMAN, of' Bcrrington, in the county of Bristol, and State of Rhode Island, have invented on Improved Carriage-Button; and I do hereby declare the same to be fully described in the following specificotion, and represented in the accompanying drawings, of which- Figure 1 is a front view,

Figure 2 a. side; elevation, and

Figure 3 a longitudinal section of it.

Figure i exhibits the common carriage-button, it being shown in side view.

The head a of such button is connected with the body 6 and the shank r. The button-hole for such a button consists of a slit terminating at one end in a. circular hole.

My improved button requires simply a. small circular hole for o. button-hole. The head d of my improved button I form of an elongated, oral, or elliptical term, and arrange it eccentricelly with respect to the body b and the shank c, and I usually make the said head as a. piece separate from the body I), and with u journohf, to extend through the body and the shank c, concentrically therewith, the some being so as to enable the head to be revolved relatively to the body. The suidjournal after insertion in the body is to be upset at its end, in order to keep it in connection with the'body. The said body 1 form prismatic at its base, as shown at g, in order that a. wrench may be fitted to it in order to revolve it and its screw. I also cut a screw, h, on the shank c, to enable such shank tobe screwed into the part of a. carriage to which it may be desirable to oiii'x thebutton. In buttoning a. carriage-flop uponthe button, or un'buttoning it therefrom, the head of the button usually stands with its longer axis vertical and with the eccentric part of the head uppermost. After the buttoning of.the flap may have taken place, the head may be turned around one hundred and eighty degrees, in which case it Will securely hold the flap with the body. i

I am awareof the curtuin-fastener described in Letters Patent No. 52,145, which consists of a. common w,0od-screw, o tube or cylinder, and a projection therefrom; I do not claim such. My invention, although in some respects like this, differs in others materially from it, for in my carriage-button there is o journahf, which is attached to the eccentric head, and goes through and so as to turn in the screw-shank 3;- und furthermore there is o-prismatic base to-the body to enable the screw of the body to be revolved, so as to'fix it into an article; furthermore, my button, instead of being in separate parts, easily separated and lost, has its parts cornbined'or connected, whereby they cannot well be separated.

I claim as my invention the following:

I claim a carriage-button as constructed witlrthe head eccentric to the body, and with a journal to project from the head, and with a screw and o prismatic base to its body, as described.

I also claim the carriage-button as not only mode with the hood eccentric to the body, audnapplied thereto by means of a journal, so as to be capable of being revolved relatively to it as specified, but as having a. prismetio base, and a screw to project therefrom, as explained.

' WM. P. BATEMAN.

Witnesses:

R. H. EDDY, F. P. HALE, Jr. 

